Re:Ether/Or – The story of black holes, and how I temporaril...
by dumpsterdiver on Thursday July 20, 2023 @07:17PM
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> Didn't have the patience.
Considering the widespread propensity for "content creators" (I use the term with contempt) to bury useful information behind their painfully verbose life story and continually remind you to smash that like button and subscribe, I avoid video like the plague when I actually want to learn something.
Unless a video is a full fledged lecture that entirely avoids dallying about, I do not have the patience. Interestingly though, I have no problem watching videos of people slowly power washing carpets.
Re:Ether/Or – The story of black holes, and how I temporaril...
by swayvil on Thursday July 20, 2023 @07:23PM
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Ditto. 99.99% of the time I would never watch such a video. It was a special case.
Recently watched a video of a guy painting a driveway with great satisfaction.
But yes, I too am astonished. A picture is worth a thousand words. Video a million. But youtube videos of this genre, they grind it down to a dozen. It's impressive.
Re:Ether/Or – The story of black holes, and how I temporaril...
by dumpsterdiver on Thursday July 20, 2023 @08:01PM
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> It's impressive.
Haha, indeed. It reminds me of those extreme coding competitions where people achieve amazing results with very little code, except in this case the content creators manage to achieve shockingly poor results by bludgeoning the universe with their "cool story".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Either/Or
Maybe he reaches a sane resolution later in the video. I dunno. Didn't have the patience.
Considering the widespread propensity for "content creators" (I use the term with contempt) to bury useful information behind their painfully verbose life story and continually remind you to smash that like button and subscribe, I avoid video like the plague when I actually want to learn something.
Unless a video is a full fledged lecture that entirely avoids dallying about, I do not have the patience. Interestingly though, I have no problem watching videos of people slowly power washing carpets.
Recently watched a video of a guy painting a driveway with great satisfaction.
But yes, I too am astonished. A picture is worth a thousand words. Video a million. But youtube videos of this genre, they grind it down to a dozen. It's impressive.
Haha, indeed. It reminds me of those extreme coding competitions where people achieve amazing results with very little code, except in this case the content creators manage to achieve shockingly poor results by bludgeoning the universe with their "cool story".
True. Diluted in memes, bad jokes, and stock video imagery.